SIMPLE MINDS UNVEIL EPIC NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
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On 13, Sep 2025 | In Live Performance Portishead | By JM
Portishead – Roads – T4P
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On 10, Jul 2025 | In Live Performance Pretenders | By JM
Bill Burr with The Pretenders
Here was a surprise out of left Field….
Bill Burr asked us to do a few tunes with him at his show in London last night at the Hammersmith Odeon where I saw Motörhead play 40 years ago.
We performed:
Ace of spades by Motörhead
How do you get your money, honey? By AC/DC
And breaking the law by Judas Priest.
I was thinking… He can tell jokes, but can jokes play drums?
The answer is – yes they can!
Bill nailed it.
After the show, I was thinking …
….maybe Bill missed his calling like a few other luminaries I know:
John McEnroe missed his as a guitar player and opted out for tennis
Bill missed his as a drummer and opted out for stand-up
Kate Moss missed hers as a singer… (and I’m still trying to figure out what she opted out for).
I guess we all have our chosen destinies.
Keep on rocking in the free world!
Xch
By JM
On 05, Jul 2025 | In Live Performance | By JM
Oasis Live25
Having designed content for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, I collaborated with Neil Harris at Shop to develop some ideas from the NGHFB material into Oasis 25.
The visuals for Fade Away is a rework of the version made for NGHFB. Found slides, scans, animation merged with Live footage.
For the rest of the show, Chris Curtis – I’m Your Boss Films – collaborated with Neil Harris Shop, myself and Paul Normandale. Chris said in TPI Magazine “We want something that feels like it has legacy yet remains forward- thinking. Nothing is on the nose or predictable. The only through-line, in this digital world, is that our approach is analogue.
By JM
On 05, Apr 2025 | In Live Performance | By JM
Simple Minds Alive and Kicking Tour 2025
Tour Visuals and Live Concert Director
Simple Minds announce a major North American headline tour – the legendary Scottish band’s biggest live run across the US and Canada in four decades. The Alive & Kicking Tour 2025 will visit arenas and amphitheaters across the continent beginning in May. They will be joined by special guests Soft Cell and Modern English.
By JM
On 10, Mar 2025 | In Live Performance | By JM
Paraorchestra – Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
Step back in time to Vienna, 1918 and into composer Arnold Schönberg’s radical underworld.
Tired of the ignorance and conservative mindset of establishment types, critics, and celebrity musicians of the time; Schönberg dreamed of a new counter-culture. In revolt, he founded the ‘Society for Private Musical Performance’, a space where – free from judgement – Schönberg and his fellow adventurers could indulge their love of popular music.
In Dance Like Nobody’s Watching we invite you into Schönberg’s inner circle. Conductor Charles Hazlewood and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Bethan Langford, along with a Paraorchestra ensemble, create an intimate atmosphere – daring, vivid and powerful.
Bespoke projections by visual artist and filmmaker John Minton, who has worked with artists such as Portishead, Sleaford Mods and on Paraorchestra’s Minimalism Changed My Life, will combine with these era-defining orchestral reductions to transport you to Schönberg’s escapist utopia.
By JM
On 29, Jan 2025 | In Live Performance | By JM
Simple Minds – Jimmy Kimmel Live
Simple Minds perform the song Don’t You (Forget About Me) on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Featuring reformatted tour visuals for the Jimmy Kimmel Live LED wall.
By JM
On 04, Nov 2024 | In Live Performance | By JM
Beth Gibbons – Bibliothèque nationale de France – ARTE Concert
Artistic Direction for this performance at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in the heart of Paris.
On 04, Sep 2024 | In Live Performance Music Video | By JM
Beth Gibbons – For Sale (Live at Albert Hall, Manchester)
Beth Gibbons – “For Sale”, from the album ‘Lives Outgrown’ out now on Domino Record Co.
John Minton – Director
Ross James – Camera Supervisor
Joe Charsley-Smith – Assistant Director
Audio recording by Will Doyle
Mixed by James Ford
Mastered by Matt Colton
On 25, Jul 2024 | In Live Performance Music Video | By JM
Beth Gibbons – Lost Changes (Live at Albert Hall, Manchester)
Beth Gibbons – “Lost Changes”, from the album ‘Lives Outgrown’ out now on Domino Record Co. Stream & save “Lost Changes”: https://bethgibbons.ffm.to/lostchanges Order & stream ‘Lives Outgrown’: https://bethgibbons.ffm.to/livesoutgrown John Minton – Director Ross James – Camera Supervisor Joe Charsley-Smith – Assistant Director www.mintonfilm.co.uk Audio recording by Will Doyle Mixed by James Ford Mastered by Matt Colton
By JM
On 09, Jul 2022 | In Live Performance | By JM
Paolo Nutini – Visuals
Bespoke Visuals for a couple of tracks
Scream (Funk my life up)
Petrified
Commissioned by Rod Maclachlan